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Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplant
Since ancient times, surgeons have dreamed of transplanting healthy organs into patients disabled by disease and injury, but the human body's powerful immune system stymied all such attempts, leading many observers to conclude that the procedure was...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Entertainment Events, World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics, Personal Service
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Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack
Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...
Tags: Hitchcock (movie), Ang Lee, Entertainment Events, Steven Spielberg, Movies
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It's summertime and the reading's easy
Illustration by Steven SalernoAs life seems to slow to a snail’s pace during summer’s languorous days, it’s the perfect time to indulge in reading. Thrillers and spooky tales provide a particular chill on a torpid evening. Light and breezy reads are the perfect...Tags: Literature, John Knox, Thriller (genre), Pat Tillman, Afghanistan
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Marilyn Monroe's eternal beauty
Los Angeles TimesMarilyn Monroe certainly achieved fame in the course of her 36-year lifetime, but in the five decades since her death, she's become such a celebrity-branding superstar, it often feels as if America's proto-platinum pinup never really left the building...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Companies and Corporations, Social Media, Entertainment Events, Cannes Film Festival
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The literary side of Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles TimesSince her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...Tags: Photography, The Front Page (movie), Marilyn Monroe, Arts, Elia Kazan
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NYCC: Guillermo Del Toro expands ‘Pacific Rim’ empire with comic
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comGuillermo Del Toro's “Pacific Rim” promises plenty of sci-fi spectacle pitting robots against monsters, but the visceral “Pan's Labyrinth” director, ...... -
Steve Jobs' yacht revealed, christened 'Venus'
CNNSteve Jobs' yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard on Sunday, where the unusual boat designed by Jobs and famed minimalist designer Philippe Starck was christened "Venus," after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory....Tags: Netherlands, Shipbuilding, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Manufacturing and Engineering
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'The Partisan' an opinionated biography of William Rehnquist
-------------------- The Partisan The Life of William Rehnquist John A. Jenkins Public Affairs: 368 pp., $28.99 -------------------- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was a curious man. He could be courtly and gracious, elegant in argument and a...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Richard Nixon, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI, Mitt Romney
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Illuminating cancer
When the door to Donald Hopper's garage rolled up, it revealed a scene out of Car and Driver. A mint, cherry-red convertible built in the mid-'60s was parked atop a gleaming black-and-white checkered floor — a giant racing flag. Hopper said it was...Tags: Authors, Pancreatic Cancer, Lung Cancer, Quitting Smoking, Newspaper and Magazine
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Boy Scout files reveal repeat child abuse by sexual predators
For nearly a century, the Boy Scouts of America has relied on a confidential blacklist known as the "perversion files" as a crucial line of defense against sexual predators. Scouting officials say they've used the files to prevent hundreds of men who...
Tags: Witnesses, Psychiatry, Child Abuse, Social Organizations, Youth Organizations
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Allan Powell: Ayn Rand's dream is a nightmare
The “Age of Greed” authored by Jeff Madrick, an economic columnist for The New York Times, might be considered by some as just another treatise on our latest economic collapse. This would not be a fair assessment of this fine book because it...Tags: Alan Greenspan, Philosophy, Milton Friedman, Piracy, Bain Capital, LLC
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Boy Scouts Release 20 Years of 'Perversion Files'
Los Angeles TimesPORTLAND, Ore. -- More than 1,200 files on suspected sexual molesters in the Boy Scouts of America were made public Thursday, lifting the veil on decades of alleged abuse in one of the nation's oldest youth organizations. The court-ordered release of the...Tags: Witnesses, Child Abuse, Social Organizations, Laws, Sexual Assault
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